Sayer Ji: Full Biography, Work and Record

Sayer Ji is an American author, investigative journalist and research curator. He founded GreenMedInfo, an open-access index of peer-reviewed research on natural health, in 2008, and the citizens’ coalition Restore the First in 2026.^[1] He is the author of Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body’s Radical Resilience through the New Biology (Hay House, 2020), a Publishers Weekly hardcover nonfiction bestseller,^[2] and of Shadow Empire: The Epstein Files (Skyhorse Publishing with Children’s Health Defense, 2026).^[3] He co-founded Stand for Health Freedom, chairs the Global Wellness Forum, advises the National Health Federation, and sits on the steering committee of Make Europe Healthy Again.^[4]^[5] In 2021 the Center for Countering Digital Hate named him in its “Disinformation Dozen” report, a characterization Facebook publicly disputed that year.^[6]^[7]

Early life and education

Ji is the son of Sungchul Ji, a theoretical cell biologist who has taught at Rutgers University since 1982 and is now professor emeritus,^[8] and Dorothy Ji, a librarian. He spent part of his early childhood in Dortmund, Germany, where his father worked at the Max Planck Institute, and has said that illness shaped his childhood.^[1] “It really wasn’t until I was 17 that I learned some basic principles of nutrition and self care,” he told NPR in 2021.^[9]

He attended Rutgers University, where he studied under the American philosopher Bruce W. Wilshire with a focus on the philosophy of science, and received a B.A. in philosophy in 1995.^[10] His interest in phenomenology carried into his later work: his paper “Two Philosophers of the Flesh: Intersecting Complementarism” relates Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to the principle of complementarity as developed in his father’s biology-based framework.^[11] He holds no degree in medicine, nutrition or biology, a point his critics have emphasized.^[12]

Early career

After graduating, Ji completed a residency at Zen Mountain Monastery in New York and spent five years as a counselor-teacher and wilderness-therapy specialist in youth programs in New Jersey and New Hampshire.^[1] He then managed For Goodness Sake, a natural-foods store on Bonita Beach Road in Bonita Springs, Florida, where he also taught. The Naples Daily News profiled him there on September 16, 2006, under the headline “Health food store manager finds career by accident.”^[13]

GreenMedInfo

Founding and method

Ji launched GreenMedInfo in 2008 to make the peer-reviewed literature on foods, nutrients and botanicals searchable by the people who could use it. The research existed in the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed database, but was scattered.^[1] GreenMedInfo indexes that literature by substance and condition, shows each study’s abstract, and links to the original PubMed record so readers can check it.

The GreenMedInfo home page, showing counters for studies curated, linked and indexed. — The GreenMedInfo home page on October 15, 2026.

Scale

The library held about 23,000 research articles in 2016.^[1] As of October 15, 2026, the site reports 109,812 studies curated by its editors, 455,768 studies linked to a substance or condition, and 28,227,600 studies indexed in total, across 10,244 health topics.^[14] It describes itself as ad-free and member-supported, and earns revenue from memberships, donations and product sales; Ji owns the company.^[15]^[16]

Reception

The site’s selectivity is both its method and the main criticism of it. In 2019 Jonathan Jarry of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society called GreenMedInfo “a highly selective slice of the biomedical literature, biased toward positive results for natural ingredients,” while acknowledging that its research dashboard “appears to be up to that task” of organizing studies.^[12] GreenMedInfo describes itself as a curated index rather than a systematic review: editors choose studies that bear on natural interventions in order to surface research its founder considers under-covered.^[15] Its writing has been used as source material in the literature: a 2017 review in Electronic Physician cites Ji’s article on turmeric, and a 2023 editorial in the Indian Journal of Microbiology cites Regenerate.^[17]^[18]

Books and writing

Early books and the CRC Press chapter

Ji co-wrote The Cancer Killers: The Cause Is the Cure (2012) with Dr. Ben Lerner and Dr. Charles Majors.^[19] With Ali Le Vere he wrote chapter 10, “Revisioning Cellular Bioenergetics: Food as Information and the Light-Driven Body,” in the CRC Press clinical primer Nutrition and Integrative Medicine: A Primer for Clinicians (2018), a 28-page chapter that frames food as a source of biological information as well as calories.^[20]

Regenerate (2020)

Hay House published Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body’s Radical Resilience through the New Biology on March 31, 2020, with an endorsement from Christiane Northrup, M.D.^[1] The book argues that the body’s capacity for repair can be supported by diet and lifestyle, drawing on research on autophagy, stem cells, epigenetics and metabolic flexibility. It appeared at No. 11 on the Publishers Weekly hardcover nonfiction list for the week ending April 4, 2020,^[2] and has been published in German as Neustart für die Zellen (riva Verlag, 2020),^[21] in Polish as Regeneracja Twojego zdrowia (Wydawnictwo Vital, 2020),^[22] and in Spanish as Regenérate (Gaia Ediciones).^[23]

Investigative journalism on Substack

Since August 2024 Ji has published investigative work and essays on Substack.^[24] By October 2026 the archive held more than 680 posts, including the eleven-part Poisoned, Not Infected, a multipart series on acetaminophen, reporting on the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a series on the Justice Department’s Epstein release, and the Sacred Technology essays on biology, light and consciousness.^[25]^[26]

His acetaminophen reporting reached federal policymakers. The Wall Street Journal reported that in September 2025 Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. texted Kenvue’s chief executive a link to one of Ji’s Substack articles, shortly before the administration urged pregnant women to limit acetaminophen use.^[27]^[28] In May 2026 his “Follow the Money” compared CCDH’s U.S. tax returns with its British affiliate’s filings,^[29] and on October 9, 2026, he published an open letter to ACM, Springer Nature, Sage and The BMJ proposing a “Consequential Claims and Correction Accountability Standard” for academic papers that relied on the CCDH report.^[30]

Shadow Empire: The Epstein Files (2026)

Shadow Empire, from Skyhorse Publishing with Children’s Health Defense, is a 552-page documentary reading of the roughly 3.5 million pages the Justice Department released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, listed for release on December 15, 2026.^[31] According to the book’s website, each of its claims is footnoted to a public Justice Department document, and its advance endorsements include former Representative Dennis Kucinich, Jeffrey Tucker, James Corbett, Steve Kirsch and Sonia Elijah.^[3]

Health-freedom advocacy

National Health Federation

Ji joined the National Health Federation’s Board of Governors in 2015 and has advised the organization since 2016. It named him a Health Freedom Hero in 2017, alongside Corinne Buckley and Senator Rand Paul.^[32] In March 2025 he spoke at the federation’s 70th-anniversary conference and joined its delegation to the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Food Additives in Seoul.^[33]

Stand for Health Freedom

In 2019 Ji co-founded Stand for Health Freedom with attorney Leah Wilson and chiropractor Joel Bohemier, and served on its founding board through 2024.^[4] The organization reports that it has helped more than 966,000 people take more than 6.5 million actions with their elected officials, and credits a December 2019 campaign, in which more than 80,000 emails reached New Jersey lawmakers, with helping stop a bill that would have eliminated the state’s religious exemption to vaccination.^[4] Politico reported that the group’s campaign against water fluoridation “has successfully persuaded over a dozen local governments” in Florida to stop adding fluoride.^[34] The Associated Press described Ji in 2025 as a co-founder who advises the group and volunteers with MAHA Action.^[35]

Global Wellness Forum, MAHA and Europe

Ji is Chairman and co-founder of the Global Wellness Forum. In October 2025 he spoke at the launch of Make Europe Healthy Again at the European Parliament in Brussels, and he sits on its steering committee.^[5] On January 8, 2026, the White House quoted him by name, as Chairman of the Global Wellness Forum, in its release on the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans: “For too long, our food pyramid and health policies have fueled—not fixed—the chronic disease epidemic.”^[36] The Department of Health and Human Services carried the same statement in its own release.^[37] His published biography describes him as a senior advisor to MAHA Action.^[1]

The 2021 designation and its aftermath

On March 24, 2021, the Center for Countering Digital Hate published “The Disinformation Dozen,” attributing 65% of the anti-vaccine content in a sample of more than 812,000 Facebook and Twitter posts to twelve people, including Ji.^[6] On August 18, 2021, Facebook’s Vice President of Content Policy wrote that “there isn’t any evidence to support this claim” and that the twelve accounted for “about just 0.05% of all views of vaccine-related content on Facebook,” a figure measured against a different base than CCDH’s.^[7]

Fact-checkers have flagged specific GreenMedInfo content. PolitiFact rated a December 2020 article on the FDA’s list of possible vaccine adverse events “Mostly False,” saying it “contains an element of truth but ignores critical facts.”^[38] Newswise reached a similar view and quoted Ji’s stated aim, “to counterbalance the highly biased promotion of vaccines as ‘safe and effective’ a priori.”^[39] In September 2021 Ji cited a Toxicology Reports paper on childhood COVID-19 vaccination that the journal retracted in May 2022, citing “clear evidence that the findings are unreliable.”^[40]

Platforms restricted his accounts over several years: Pinterest removed GreenMedInfo in 2018,^[41] and by 2021 Twitter, Instagram and YouTube had removed or suspended accounts associated with him.^[6]^[9] In August 2023 the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed CCDH for its communications with the executive branch, as part of an inquiry into government pressure on platforms.^[42] In September 2025 Alphabet told the committee that senior Biden administration officials had pressed it to remove COVID-19 videos “that did not violate company policies,”^[43] and in October 2025 YouTube reinstated Ji’s three channels.^[44] In December 2025 the State Department imposed visa restrictions on five people it said had led efforts to coerce American platforms to censor Americans; CNN reported that CCDH’s chief executive was among them.^[45] Kennedy quoted Ji’s post on the action: “Once again, the United States is the mecca for freedom of speech!”^[46]

A fuller, sourced account, including the criticism, is at Sayer Ji and the controversy, and a checkable error in one McGill article is documented in a correction record.^[47]

Litigation and Restore the First

On May 15, 2025, Ji and five others named in the CCDH report filed Finn v. Global Engagement Center in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, alleging that government agencies and government-linked organizations coordinated the suppression of their speech.^[48] On July 28, 2026, the court dismissed the third amended complaint with prejudice as an impermissible “shotgun pleading,” without reaching standing or the merits.^[48]

The six plaintiffs then convened Restore the First, which Ji introduced on September 17, 2026, Constitution Day, at Children’s Health Defense’s conference in Washington.^[49] The coalition asks Congress to preserve the records of government pressure on platforms, hold public hearings and create an enforceable private right of action, set out in a discussion draft of a First Amendment Remedies Act.^[50] It is unincorporated, accepts no donations and does not litigate.^[51] Its public Targeting Tracker documents 241 source-linked records from 2013 to 2026 and publishes the claims it could not substantiate alongside those it could,^[52] and its “Across the Water” feature traces free-speech law from Magna Carta to the First Amendment under the thesis that the American colonists “rebelled in the name of English law.”^[53]

Companies and other work

In June 2026 Ji founded Regenerate Company, which sells four supplements that it says are made from fermented, whole-food sources, with doses printed on the label and every lot third-party tested; he discloses that he earns money from its sales.^[54]^[16] He advises Bioceuticals.AI, a research venture whose science his father leads,^[8] and collaborates with his father on The Human RNA Project, a digital archive of Sungchul Ji’s work on cell biology and RNA.^[55] His father’s books include Molecular Theory of the Living Cell (Springer, 2012) and The Cell Language Theory (World Scientific, 2018).^[56]^[57] Ji also leads Scalar Flower, a research project on astronomy and astrology that pre-registers its statistical tests and publishes its null results.^[58]

Recognition

Health Freedom Hero, National Health Federation, 2017^[32]
Publishers Weekly hardcover nonfiction list, No. 11, week ending April 4, 2020, for Regenerate^[2]
COURAGE-19 Award (2021) and Centner Humanitarian Award (2023), according to his published biography^[1]
Speaker, launch of Make Europe Healthy Again, European Parliament, October 2025^[5]
Quoted by name in the White House and HHS releases on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, January 8, 2026^[36]^[37]

Method and corrections

Across GreenMedInfo, his books and his reporting, Ji’s stated method is the same: link every claim to a document a reader can open, distinguish what a source shows from what it does not, and publish concessions that cut against his thesis. He maintains a public disclosures page listing his companies, roles and legal matters, and a public corrections log.^[16]^[59]

Selected bibliography

The Cancer Killers: The Cause Is the Cure, with Ben Lerner and Charles Majors (2012)^[19]
“Revisioning Cellular Bioenergetics: Food as Information and the Light-Driven Body,” with Ali Le Vere, in Nutrition and Integrative Medicine: A Primer for Clinicians (CRC Press, 2018)^[20]
Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body’s Radical Resilience through the New Biology (Hay House, 2020); German, Polish and Spanish editions
Shadow Empire: The Epstein Files (Skyhorse Publishing with Children’s Health Defense, 2026), ISBN 978-1-5107-8913-5^[31]

References

Errors in this biography are corrected and logged on the corrections page. Last reviewed October 15, 2026.